Craft, Trades & Making · Building Trades
A topic within Building Trades, itself one of 10 topics in that field and part of Craft, Trades & Making.
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Frederick W. Taylor & Sanford E. Thompson
Argues that concrete's strength and durability depend on controlled proportioning of cement, aggregate and water, turning what had been a mason's improvised mix into an engineered material.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Halbert P. Gillette & Charles S. Hill
Reframes concrete work as a problem of labour organisation and cost control on site, not only of mix design, and works through forming, mixing and placing as production processes.
link checked 17 Sept 2026